Winter is coming! Crazy, we know. It feels like just a few weeks ago that we were hunkering down for our first winter in our off grid cabin, but in reality we've been gearing up to face this year's winter for months now. Yes, we really have been planning for winter all summer … [Read more...]

The past couple of weeks or so, Jesse and I have been in "clean up" mode where we try to knock as many things off of our to do list as possible. One of the things we've been doing is preparing for winter (yes, in the middle of summer) and one task on our list was building some … [Read more...]

The past couple of weeks for Jesse and I have been 99.9% consumed with cutting firewood and preparing for winter. Last winter, we barely got by with three cords of mill ends (mostly bark), so this year we were determined to get a head start on things! As a firewood cutting … [Read more...]